When stuff like this gets greened on Fark I always wonder if it was the blog writer who submitted it, hoping for a few more precious clicks... and I always wonder how the blog writer feels when he sees the Fark Snark rip into him.

If you're reading this, dear blogger, if you write a cuss word, we can read the cuss word, even if you use a "Y" instead of an "I". That's just annoying.

I got through maybe a paragraph before I had to leave the page. Not because of the animals, but because of the nigh on illiterate babble the author spewed all over the page. Whoever that person is needs to haul their ass back to grammar school and re-take English, because I don't think they know it very well.

The blue-ringed octopus is 12 to 20 cm (5 to 8 in), but its venom is powerful enough to kill humans. No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available yet, making it one of the deadliest reef inhabitants in the ocean. The octopus produces venom containing tetrodotoxin, histamine, tryptamine, octopamine, taurine, acetylcholine, and dopamine. The major neurotoxin component of the blue-ringed octopus is a venom that was originally known as maculotoxin but was later found to be identical to tetrodotoxin, a neurotoxin also found in pufferfish and some poison dart frogs that is 1200 times more toxic than cyanide. Tetrodotoxin blocks sodium channels, causing motor paralysis and respiratory arrest within minutes of exposure, leading to cardiac arrest due to a lack of oxygen. The toxin is produced by bacteria in the salivary glands of the octopus. Their venom can result in nausea, respiratory arrest, heart failure, severe and sometimes total paralysis and blindness and can lead to death within minutes if not treated. Death is usually from suffocation due to lack of oxygen to the brain.

The blue-ringed octopus is 12 to 20 cm (5 to 8 in), but its venom is powerful enough to kill humans. No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available yet, making it one of the deadliest reef inhabitants in the ocean. The octopus produces venom containing tetrodotoxin, histamine, tryptamine, octopamine, taurine, acetylcholine, and dopamine. The major neurotoxin component of the blue-ringed octopus is a venom that was originally known as maculotoxin but was later found to be identical to tetrodotoxin, a neurotoxin also found in pufferfish and some poison dart frogs that is 1200 times more toxic than cyanide. Tetrodotoxin blocks sodium channels, causing motor paralysis and respiratory arrest within minutes of exposure, leading to cardiac arrest due to a lack of oxygen. The toxin is produced by bacteria in the salivary glands of the octopus. Their venom can result in nausea, respiratory arrest, heart failure, severe and sometimes total paralysis and blindness and can lead to death within minutes if not treated. Death is usually from suffocation due to lack of oxygen to the brain.

You're dead kid, you're dead.

CSB: When I was in elementary school we went to a beach near Melbourne on a school trip to see life in rock pools - star fish, minnows, anemones, shellfish, etc etc. Anyway - one of the kids managed to fish out a blue ringed octopus. The teacher put it in a glass container, showed it to all of us, explained that we are absolutely not to touch one if we saw it and then put it back in the pool.

They're actually very docile and IIRC there's only been three recorded deaths due to bites - normally when people go out of their way to pick them up. the good survival rate is partly because as long as you have someone on hand to give mouth-to-mouth until you get to the hospital you'll be OK as the toxin doesn't stop the heart or cause you to go unconscious.

One of my favorite places I visited in Kuranda years ago was the Australian Venom Zoo. Tour guide was teasing the world's deadliest scorpion with a pencil. Like dead in minutes deadly. Freaky shiat but really interesting. Watched cool venom milkings.

The blue-ringed octopus is 12 to 20 cm (5 to 8 in), but its venom is powerful enough to kill humans. No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available yet, making it one of the deadliest reef inhabitants in the ocean. The octopus produces venom containing tetrodotoxin, histamine, tryptamine, octopamine, taurine, acetylcholine, and dopamine. The major neurotoxin component of the blue-ringed octopus is a venom that was originally known as maculotoxin but was later found to be identical to tetrodotoxin, a neurotoxin also found in pufferfish and some poison dart frogs that is 1200 times more toxic than cyanide. Tetrodotoxin blocks sodium channels, causing motor paralysis and respiratory arrest within minutes of exposure, leading to cardiac arrest due to a lack of oxygen. The toxin is produced by bacteria in the salivary glands of the octopus. Their venom can result in nausea, respiratory arrest, heart failure, severe and sometimes total paralysis and blindness and can lead to death within minutes if not treated. Death is usually from suffocation due to lack of oxygen to the brain.

You're dead kid, you're dead.

CSB: When I was in elementary school we went to a beach near Melbourne on a school trip to see life in rock pools - star fish, minnows, anemones, shellfish, etc etc. Anyway - one of the kids managed to fish out a blue ringed octopus. The teacher put it in a glass container, showed it to all of us, explained that we are absolutely not to touch one if we saw it and then put it back in the pool.

They're actually very docile and IIRC there's only been three recorded deaths due to bites - normally when people go out of their way to pick them up. the good survival rate is partly because as long as you have someone on hand to give mouth-to-mouth until you get to the hospital you'll be OK as the toxin doesn't stop the heart or cause you to go unconscious.

I also liked the part that said "The blue-ringed octopus, despite its small size, carries enough venom to kill 26 adult humans within minutes. Their bites are tiny and often painless, with many victims not realizing they have been envenomated until respiratory depression and paralysis start to set in. "